Revealing Jewel: An Intimate Portrait from Family and Friends
By Atz Lee Kilcher and Kenneth Calhoun
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About this ebook
Now, get to know this supertalented performer for the down-to-earth, savvy, and unpretentious person she is -- a dynamic young woman who, her friends all agree, is "too normal to be a rock star." Revealing Jewel pieces together a remarkable portrait, through the words of those who know her best: her family and close friends, her band, and her colleagues on the road, in the studio, and on the movie set -- including Moby, producer Arif Mardin, actor/director Billy Bob Thornton, Jewel's father, singer/ songwriter Atz Kilcher, and her mother and manager, Lenedra J. Carroll. This one-of-a-kind compilation gets up close and personal on:
Jewel's childhood...the hard times...her rise to fame...paying her dues...the recording experience...the touring life...superstardom...artistic pursuits...her passions...her causes...her friendships...her love life...her personal style...her sharp wit and hard-won wisdom.
Also included are trivia questions, candid photos, and sidebars in Jewel's own words. Delve into Revealing Jewel and celebrate the heart and soul of an artist who constantly challenges our assumptions and defies our expectations.
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Reviews for Revealing Jewel
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love Jewel. I always have, ever since her very first song, and I always will. I know her music isn't stellar and a lot of people make fun of me for this obsession but I just can't help it. I love Jewel.
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Revealing Jewel - Atz Lee Kilcher
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BACKSTORY
My sister loves Alaska; she feels a deep connection with the land that raised her and the people that had an impact on her early years. But I suppose that is what most people would feel towards a place where they were raised by a pack of wolves on an 8,000-acre arctic mountain range without food, running water or any contact with the outside world, other than the weekly yodeling report from the neighboring mountain peaks—or so the story goes.
Since Jewel’s rise to fame, her background has been at times as much of a source of entertainment as her music. And some of the stories that have been spun out of a few bits of truth are just as creative as her songs. People seem to be truly interested in where she came from and what she was like prior to being a rock star. But finding answers from a reliable source has proven to be as challenging as getting Jewel to stand still long enough to catch up with her. In this section, we explore what stands out foremost in the minds of those who knew Jewel before stardom. It’s as straight a scoop as could be found, and it has yet to be seen whether it cuts through the mythology or just adds to it.
Similar to our grandfather, who set out towards an unknown land in hopes of a better life, Jewel left Alaska and the familiarities of home. People that leave a place where all their roots are, and set out for a new sense of life and accomplishment, are the modern-day pioneers. Jewel fits the description. But her story doesn’t start with leaving home. As you’ll see, things had been building for quite some time, starting way back when, as kids, we performed as a family. If she hadn’t left, she’d probably still be singing, still creating, no matter what her setting. But it was leaving that gave the story a chance to grow into what it is.
When all’s said and done, Jewel is just another person raised in these strange times we live in. There is nothing different about her besides the fact that she focused extremely hard on her dreams and managed to manifest them into everyday life. Something anyone is capable of doing; it just takes faith and focus. Jewel knew this. Or if she didn’t when she started out, she knows it now. And maybe by reading this others will know it to be true in terms of their own lives.
Atz Lee Kilcher
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NEW way
Atz Lee Homer has changed a lot, as all small towns do. It kind of took off as a place for people that didn’t want to be called hippies. People who wanted to go somewhere else, where they could live off the land and not worry about whether or not they looked like everyone else. They came up here to have a self-sufficient lifestyle.
Before that, like with our parents’ parents, the homesteaders in the ’40s, there were a lot of people who were out for a new way of life—kind of the same thing, only these were Europeans, and mixed ethnicities. People that wanted to start a new something—a new way of life, a new community, a new family. Break away from old traditions.
This Way Tour, Orlando, FL, 6/16/02
Lee It’s a small town, Homer, but you would be surprised at all the cool people that live there.
West The people are really charming. I got a strong sense of community when I went up there. I saw how that could have affected Jewel. But having said that, I could also see where that environment could be very confining, and I could see how she would have thrived coming to San Diego from that kind of environment. She could blossom here because the possibilities are limitless, for a young person having grown up in such a remote area.
Where was Jewel born?
Utah
The whole bay area, Kachemak Bay, is physically stunning, just beautiful to look at. Jewel’s very much at home in that rugged environment. You can tell when you’re up there with her that it’s her church.
Sharon In living the life she did, in nature, in solitude, there’s a pureness, a lack of pretense to her now. She draws a lot from that.
a FAMILY
entertainment show
Shane My mom and dad had two albums out, and they were really well known in the community—both very outgoing, affable people. They had a family entertainment show, and we were all part of it.
Alan Her father, Atz, is a great storyteller. And he’s someone who takes being a professional musician very seriously, and I think he instilled that work ethic in Jewel.
Lee I had just moved up to Homer from Los Angeles when they were performing a lot as a family. Someone told me, There’s an event going on at Land’s End [a tourist resort]. The Kilchers are performing.
Jewel was really the highlight of the show, but it was, honestly, one of the best musical events that I had seen in a long time, and I was coming right out of the music scene in L.A.
Can you imagine yourself living somewhere other than the U.S.?
I was never tremendously patriotic until I left the States. America really has a way of life that spoils you for anything else, I think. I really enjoy supermarkets—I know that sounds silly. But you just get really used to Japanese, Chinese, Mexican or Italian on any given evening. The only other country I really fell in love with and thought I could spend time there, like as a summer home, is Italy.
Well, we’ll see what she’s MADE of.
I had a couple days off that I had planned to go on a camping trip with this ol’ guy that’s a friend of mine from California. We were going to go up into the Sierra Nevadas and camp and fish, and we were going to pack in there on horseback. I had already kind of had that planned with him for a while. So Jewel and I were wanting to see each other, and I didn’t have any days off other than that. I said to her, Well, I’m going on a fishing trip up into the mountains with this ol’ friend of mine. He’s a really cool guy. You want to go?
And she said, Sure.
I didn’t know anything about her background—where she was raised—and I wasn’t real sure about taking her, you know. We were on horses, and we were going to ride up into those mountains and sleep on the ground and fish, cook on the campfire and all